Backseat Mafia

PREMIERE: See Daisy Coburn’s ‘Fire’: A flamin’ hot tune from new Austerity signing

BRIGHTON’S Austerity Records, the up and coming label home already to the dark-edged dream pop stylings of the lovely Winter Gardens, is pleased to announce another worthy addition to its…

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TRACK: Hear the pastoral loveliness of Louis Philippe & The Night Mail’s ‘The Mighty Owl’; live-streamed performance announced!

MASTERFUL musician Louis Philippe, él Records aesthete and scribe of the beautiful game, has been away far, far too long; which is why here at Backseat Mafia we’re damn excited…

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IDFA Review: Acasă, My Home

During the reign of Nicolae Ceaușescu in Romania he had a grand plan. This was to turn acres of swampy land on the outskirts of Bucharest into a reservoir. Whilst…

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EP Review: Farer – Monad

Dutch doom/noise trio Farer have released a uniquely sounding EP with the use of vocals, drums and just two bass guitars. The guys have created an unearthly soundscape of heavy…

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Meet: Dutch Doom Noise trio Farer as they release their debut EP – Monad

With their first EP Monad, see our review here, Farer have created 4 tracks of despair and suffering using two bass guitars, drums and the human voice in all its…

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PREMIERE: Disco Zombies – ‘Drums Over London’: see the video for a track from Optic Nerve’s forthcoming deluxe punk reissue

YOU’VE got to applaud Optic Nerve; the Preston label that reissues some of the most excellent lost cult classics of British punk and indie culture (am I alone in finding…

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Meet: We talk to Stephen Lawson of Bluenose B, listen to their new single ‘Another Place’

Out on December 11th is the new single from indie rockers Bluenose B, titled ‘Another Place’. The band, formed way back in the 80s by songwriter Stephen Lawson, have gone…

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Live Review: Dinosaur – London Jazz Festival, Kings Place 15.11.20

It’s amazing when you realise that trumpet player and composer Laura Jurd and her Dinosaur buddies, Elliott Galvin (keys), Corrie Dick (drums) and Conor Chaplin (bass) have been making music…

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TRACK: Fujiya & Miyagi – ‘Feeling The Effects (Of Saturday Night)’

BRIGHTON’S cool groovers Fujiya & Miyagi used what we can now refer to as period of history known as Lockdown One wisely, and kept on creating. They dug back into…

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IDFA Review: The Grocer’s Son, the Mayor, the Village and the World…

One of the functions of documentary filmmaking is to allow an audience the opportunity to peek into someone else’s life. To afford the viewer an insight into a world they…

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